Beijing: A man was shot dead by police and another detained after a knife attack at a Chinese train station which left nine people wounded Friday, police said.

The incident at the main station in Guangzhou happened as China`s communist-controlled parliament meets in Beijing and just over a year after a mass stabbing at a railway station in Kunming, when 31 people were killed and four attackers died.

"Someone with a knife slashed a crowd at Guangzhou train station," the southern city`s municipal public security bureau said on its verified account on Sina Weibo, China`s version of Twitter.